Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CASTLES, by THOMAS WALSH


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CASTLES, by                    
First Line: A lonely soul in every breast
Last Line: As though they still might thrive by war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Castles; Courts & Courtiers


A LONELY soul in every breast
Where wastes of humankind unrolled;
A castle set on every crest
With moat and battlement of old.

And word came forth from the new-crowned King:—
"Cast down your walls—your feuds resign;
My peace to all the realm I bring,
For I am Love, and ye are Mine."

But some within their donjons sate
And forged the arms their fathers bore,
The pride, the greed, the craft, the hate,—
As though they still might thrive by war.





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